Matthew Sweet Quotes

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

I don't hope for anything. Not only in my professional life, but in my family life also. My total lifestyle is like that.

I just don't have a lick of optimism left in me.

Hope is the most hopeless thing of all.

If there is a chronic infirmity by which every teacher ought to be afflicted, it is, indeed, hope.

Ain't no use jiving, ain't no use joking, everything is broken.

To hope for nothing, to expect nothing, to demand nothing. This is analytical despair.

Skepticism turns to cynicism, which leads to apathy and despair, which can cause sleeplessness, dry-mouth, and loss of sex drive?

After all, there is nothing but failure.

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

A pessimist is a man who tells the truth prematurely.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it?

Despair is the conclusion of fools.

I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

Dear World, I am leaving because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool. Good luck.